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Anna Frangou

@annamfra.bsky.social
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science, strategy, and scicomms @math-mpicbg.bsky.social some kind of biologist, surrounded by mathematicians eyebrows raise with joy at the sight of any animal

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I don't think scientists should work for anyone else. They should work for discovery and for their own curiosity. – Maria Leptin, ERC President @marialep.bsky.social (From the episode of the Night Science Podcast coming out next week @nightsciencepod.bsky.social )
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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
biologists rediscovering mathematical techniques and giving something like linear algebra 18 different names, to create the fun and confusion mathematicians so love. a beautiful talk from @lpachter.bsky.social about many things, including what math and bio share @math-mpicbg.bsky.social
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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
@rmcelreath.bsky.social on science reform - a collective action problem: elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...
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Which Kind of Science Reform
What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.
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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Manu Prakash - a beautiful combination of working on the world's most pressing problems & looking at stuff because it's interesting with no idea what the outcome or use could be. Both are massively valuable & that both is and isn't the point. Make sure to play. www.quantamagazine.org/how-paradoxi...
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How Paradoxical Questions and Simple Wonder Lead to Great Science | Quanta Magazine
Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a philosophy he calls “recreational biology.”
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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
met this man at #TCTeAC. truly cool work. this is one of my faves
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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
the freedommm
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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
We need a *framework* (what we’ve studied, all the core material that comes from reading, experimenting, etc), and we need *freedom* to digest, evaluate, consider, and connect ideas. We need both. Emphatically. Walking around/staring into nothing/doing handstands is not wasted time. It’s integral.
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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
environment matters. crunchy in a good way. @mpi-cbg.de
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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
A friend said years ago that he feels like a kid in a sandpit at work. He’s a medicinal chemist who somehow found his thing and work feels like play. It didn’t for me at that point and it really stuck with me. #tcteac made a few points about the scientific process and for me, this was one of them 🩵
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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Η Πράγα είναι όμορφη 😍😎 #TCTEAC
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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Intuition: one of the best topics in science and mathematics - what does it mean, where does it come from, when does it hit us? A new take on it from Yuval Ebstein, is it just belief? Maybe it’s belief with some subconscious understanding we can’t yet write down. #TCTeAC
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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Super interesting talk from Tzachi Pilpel about the competing ideas of deterministic, probabilistic, and now evolutionary cell fate determination during development ✨ #TCTeAC
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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
taking ideas from improv into science with @itaiyanai.bsky.social and Martin Lercher the value of saying ‘yes, and’ instead of putting a block on someone’s thought. that &the belief that a good idea will arrive is 👌🏼 let’s make this kindness &willingness to sit in the wilderness more common #TCTeAC
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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Maya Bar talking about the value of being stunningly naive in science and discovery. some beautiful examples from the audience of people’s uncomfortable moments in research. Also (and related to the video): we need specialists and we need those who can connect all the dots. #TCTeAC
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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
supposed physical threats from @obradam.bsky.social if you go over time. pretty sure he tickles people. great talk from Ahmed Elewa on developmental biology, aka how to read a feather 🪶🩵 #TCTeAC
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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
new cell states emerging during drought *recovery* (rather than during drought) in arabidopsis from @natanellae.bsky.social to engineer crops that are drought tolerant and resilient. #TCTeAC
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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
do cells have brains? metaphorically, seems like it, somehow. cellular memory for stress with @itaiyanai.bsky.social
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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
off to Prague for woodstock.bio woodstock.img.cas.cz. zero idea what to expect and very happy about it 😎😍 @mnileathlobhair.bsky.social #theconferencetoendallconferences
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Woodstock.Bio2 + Night Science 2025 | Courses & Meetings
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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
woooot @mnileathlobhair.bsky.social
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 25/04/2025
Math and linguistics have a lot to teach each other.
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Where Does Meaning Live in a Sentence? Math Might Tell Us. | Quanta Magazine
The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated language.
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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
'There are no hierarchies. Let's deliberately keep our readings interdisciplinary. That's what challenges the mind. Cognitive mobility. Let's be intellectual nomads and refuse to settle down.' -- Elif Şafak
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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
same as linguistic prototypes (a penguin is less birdy than a sparrow) or the meaning of any word (no word gives us an exact map to what we mean). but the neat concept (bird) gives us a place to start, and the messier reality (the range of things we call birds) becomes comprehensible through it.
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Anna Frangou @annamfra.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
'Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.' -- Rumi
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